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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1818. inner harbour, which we found to be a spacious 
April 20 . sheet of water, divided into two bays by a pro- 
jecting cliffy point, which from its situation was 
called Middle Head. There we remained at 
anchor until the 23d, during which time the 
shores of the inner harbour were examined, and 
visits made to various parts of it. 
The shores of the inner harbour are thickly 
wooded to the beach, which is fronted by mud- 
flats, that at low water are dry for a considerable 
distance. 
On the western point of entrance, we found the 
remains of a wrecked canoe, and upon further 
search, Mr. Bedwell discovered a spear which 
was altogether different from any that we had 
before seen ; it was headed with a sharp pointed 
splinter of quartz, about four inches long, and an 
inch and a half broad; the shaft was of the man- 
grove-tree, seven feet eight inches long, and 
appeared, from a small hole at the end, to have 
been propelled by a throwing- stick ; the stone- 
head was fastened on by a ligature of plaited 
grass, covered by a mass of gum: it was the 
most formidable weapon of the sort we had ever 
yet seen. 
At the bottom of the western basin one of our 
people found the skeleton of a human body ; and 
the skull and some of the bones were brought on 
